Yorgis will bring a taste of Cuba to you with his project Elegance (see music player below). An extremely talented multi-instrumentalist, he plays the bass, piano and the flute. He also composes and arranges for himself as well as many internationally renowned and Grammy winning artists. He has been nominated for three Grammy awards for arrangement and piano with famed singer Albita. His quintet will perform Cuban traditional son, danzon, cha cha cha and latin Jazz as a tribute to the Buena Vista Social club as well as his own jazz originals!

His touring credits include tours many major artists including Rey Ruiz, Issac Delgado, Albita, Luis Enrique and many more. He has performed throughout Europe, Mexico, South America, the US and the Caribbean. This will be his second year in New York with his new project Elegance which features Paquito D’ Rivera, Osmany Paredes, and Issac Delgado on the recording. Last year these shows sold out quickly. Catch a rare glimpse of Cuba’s cutting edge talent with the best of Latin Jazz and traditional Cuban son, danzon and more.

The second self-produced outing of the Matanzas-born, Miami-based bassists/composer/arranger Yorgis Goiricelaya offers a well-balanced repertoire, mostly comprised of vibrant originals —usually penned by Yorgis and his two main accomplices, pianist Orlando Guanche (of MegaTV fame) and trap drummer/percussionist Hilario Bell —and tastefully updated Cuban classics. Furthermore, one finds various additional assets, including Yorgi’s own refreshing adaptation of Jaco Pastorious’ “Teen Town” and a modernized version of a traditional Afro-Cuban chant to Yemayá.

Yorgis and his companions manage to fuse, in a very pleasant and refined manner, various traditional and contemporary modalities extracted from Cuban’s main genres (son, rumba. danzón, bolero, etc.) with elements drawn from multiple non-Cuban idioms (jazz, funk, blues, samba, etc.), thus justifying the tittle of the compact disc.